[MLUG] JS debugging (was Re: good intro to programming for a teenager?)

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 8/8/05, Scott Hussey <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On 8/7/05, Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > How do you debug Javascript?  Seriously, it's always been a pain in
> > the neck to debug it.  This was my favorite thing about Python when I
> > was learning it: On error, it dumps a full stack trace.  You know
> > right where things started to go wrong.
> 
> I would recommend Venkman, the JS debugger with Mozilla. I think it is
> built in the full Mozilla built and comes as an extension for Firefox.
> It is fully featured - breakpoints, variable watches, step-through.
> Every once in a while, it gets a little flaky if you have a lot of
> tabs open with javascript in them or you refresh a page as you are
> stepping through the javascript, but overall pretty stable.
> 

That's what I use, but I must not know how to use it.  How do you make
it dump a  backtrace?

Regards,
Mark
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